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After a demonic raid, Donald re-entered the forest at the back of the manor, increasing the number of Ancient Guardians to twenty-four, scattered throughout the manor.

According to his estimate, these preparations should be able to protect the manor from the invasion of professionals below the bronze strength.

With the existence of Ancient Guardians and the Tree of Life all around, the Bronze and Below Professions are only here to deliver fertilizer to the manor.

As for the professions above the bronze rank, whether they are swordsmen and knights in close combat, or marksmen and hunters who are good at long-range attacks and traps, they can already be called strong men in their own right, and with passive defense alone, even with the suppression of natural enchantments, they cannot guarantee exact safety at all.

Although the difference between the early stage of bronze and the high stage of black iron is only one level, the strength of the first stage of bronze is increased several times, and a warrior of the early stage of bronze can often face five or six fighters of the high stage of black iron without falling behind. And a powerhouse like that demon that day, whose strength was infinitely close to the bronze high rank, was not something that the existence of the Black Iron Rank and a few Ancient Guardians could deal with at all.

After such a long time in the division of strength in this world, Donald has already learned a lot.

Take the swordsman, for example:

Originally apprentice-level reserve swordsmen, they were generally ordinary people with simple training.

When you reach the Black Iron Swordsman stage, you have received formal training, are proficient in basic swordsmanship, and can skillfully use more than three weapons, master the power skills of battle, and your physical endurance far exceeds that of ordinary people.

When the swordsman reaches the bronze rank, his strength begins to make a big leap, and after systematic training, after his strength reaches the peak of black iron beyond the limit of the ordinary human body, it is possible to develop the potential of the body itself, comprehend the existence of qi, and can use the qi in the body to strengthen all aspects of ability.

The Silver Swordsman, who can turn his qi into a powerful attack, surpasses the swordsman's lack of ranged attacks. Warriors of this rank have been greatly weakened by the suppression of magic power, unless they are spellcasters of the same level, otherwise even if a mage below bronze uses all his strength, he will basically not be able to hurt the silver swordsman with sword qi protection.

Finally, there is the legendary Golden Swordsman, also known as the Juggernaut. It is said that the Sword Master who has reached this rank has begun to comprehend the power of the shallow law, and is a powerful existence that has touched the threshold of the legend. Their bodies have evolved under the power of the law, and have begun to transcend the boundaries of mortality. When you reach this level, you can no longer defeat the existence of numbers, and thousands of troops and horses can pass freely as if they were walking on the ground.

Other warriors who use non-sword weapons are roughly the same level, and a few classes such as assassins and thieves may also comprehend some mysterious spell-casting abilities, so although their own frontal combat effectiveness is not as good as that of a swordsman, their overall strength is roughly the same.

This is just a few classes of physical attack under normal circumstances, and if it is the caster, then Donald has to worry even more.

Taking himself as an example, the mage level is in the early stage of black iron, but if he doesn't use the power of the Book of Truth, with the strength of his own mage, it is still relatively easy to deal with a few warriors in the middle stage of black iron.

Mages have always been known for their invincibility against warriors, unless inexperienced rookie mages are easily knocked out by warriors in close proximity.

Donald has little to think about in this regard, he can only choose to increase his strength in order to return from the battlefield as soon as possible!

There's no way he's going to leave a powerful minon to guard his territory, and no minion can last so long unless he's gathered enough soul power to summon it permanently.

With enough magic cores, he can dispatch an army of summoned creatures at any time, so there is no need for Clinton's men to be brought to the battlefield, and it is more important to leave them to protect their families.

However, the strength of Clinton alone is not enough to ensure the safety of the manor. For two nights in a row, he had already run all over the cemeteries around Boulder City, and even dug graves, so he quietly absorbed less than a hundred units of soul power, plus the share obtained from killing the blade demon, and gathered enough soul power of more than a thousand units, ready to summon a third-level class at least lv3 soul level before leaving, which was used to increase the manor's guardian power.

The third-level class already has the strength of the early stage of bronze, even if the evil magician from before comes again, it is estimated that he can resist the past with the cooperation of many people. At this time, Donald didn't know that the other party was an existence with silver strength, otherwise he wouldn't have planned it like this.

As for the candidates for the third-tier class, Donald has his sights set on the puppet creatures.

Although the classes of intelligent creatures are powerful and can continue to advance, they are too consuming of soul power to create, and there are several types of troops in the Book of Truth that are between life and non-life but focus on energy consumption, although they cannot be promoted by their own cultivation and learning like other classes after they are created, but the advantage is that the requirements for soul power are not high.

These classes are Alchemy Life, Elemental Life, and Mechanical Life.

Whether it is an alchemy puppet, an elemental puppet or a mechanical puppet, these are given simple souls by the maker, but most of them only know how to listen to the master's orders to act, and the puppet creatures that do not have their own thoughts, creating them, have relatively low requirements for soul power, such as permanently summoning a second-level gargoyle, the soul power required is eighty units, which is only two-fifths of the human infantry of the same level.

However, compared to a small amount of soul power, the energy required to create their entities is very large, and it will cost at least ten times more than intelligent beings. This was one of the reasons why Donald had ordered the steward to go all out to acquire the elemental hedrons.

After several comparisons and selections, Donald determined the candidate for this permanent summoning.

Two gargoyles, one battle golem.

First of all, the battle golem, a metal golem specially invented for war, was created by alchemists and mages.

The smallest is a third-level battle puppet, with bronze strength, and the medium-sized is a war puppet, with a body size of up to fifteen feet and silver-level strength, which can determine the outcome of a war. The large ones are siege puppets, thirty feet tall and huge, their weight alone is enough to overwhelm the walls of ordinary towns in this world, and they are definitely the ultimate weapon for siege and siege.

The third-level field class battle puppet consumes one hundred and thirty units of soul power, and the energy consumption is comparable to creating two farms out of thin air, but the effort is worth it. The battle golem is composed of steel armor and is eight feet tall, looking like a fully armed knight, except that this humanoid metal armor does not require a war horse, and is driven by the power of magic and alchemy, and can exert the attack power of the bronze high rank.

As for the defense, just look at the metal shell that is as thick as three fingers, it must be stronger than the silver powerhouse!

The only weakness and disadvantage is that the metal golem moves a little slowly, and the energy cost to create it is mainly on the condensed golem core, which is the key to the existence and activity of the combat golem, once it is directly hit by a powerful attack, then the combat golem will be completely scrapped into a pile of scrap metal.

However, Donald needs a battle puppet to protect the manor, and he doesn't expect it to run to the enemy, so the first shortcoming is not a shortcoming, as for the weakness of the puppet, without the powerful attack power of the silver level, it is impossible to penetrate the metal armor with strong defense and immunity to magic attributes at once, and if the enemy has a strong silver, it is futile to make these preparations, so this weakness does not need to be considered for the time being.

Considering that the battle golem could not launch an effective attack on air units, Donald created two more second-level gargoyles as supports, and the cost of the gargoyle was much lower than that of the battle golem, but the combined strength of seven or eight gargoyles was not as good as a battle golem. However, Gargoyles' flexible attacks are extremely powerful against ground units, and their stone skin is also very strong.

In the center of the Dark Manor that day, there was an additional metal knight and two black stone demon statues. With these three alchemy golems, once the manor is attacked, the battle golem sits in the center to guard, and the gargoyle can quickly support any part of the manor.

This kind of camp, if it is still the same blade demon attack as last time, it is estimated that it will not be able to make three moves, and it will be confessed in the manor.

In addition to these preparations, Donald is still not at ease, after all, the main combat power of the manor is puppet creatures, and without his command, it can only supply enemies within a certain range, and these alone are afraid that it will not be able to cover everything. And there is a lot of strength in numbers, so the previous plan to recruit guards is still on the agenda.

"There are some real guards in the manor, not only can they stabilize people's hearts, but as long as they are given a few bows and arrows and musketeers' muskets, even if they are not trained, they can exert a lot of power, and the watchtower they have built before can also come in handy. ”

While the biggest role of these guards is to keep the enemy at bay, the real resistance is still the puppet creatures. However, once these people are in place, the manor's defense system is also more flexible, and it is no longer as passive and rigid as before.

As for the choice of the escort, Donald decided to choose among the civilian adventurers in the nearby territory.